Bruce Eckel's MindView, Inc: Free Electronic Book: Thinking in Java, 3rd Edition. This page apparently has both "Thinking in Java" and "Thinking in C++" as being reader's choices for best book of 2002. I don't know which readers, other than that they are Chinese. Subscribe to the free OOP Newsletter from Bruce Eckel Subscribing to the newsletter provides automatic notification when the book is revised and information about CD Roms and Java Seminars and workshops. As many of you have noticed, I am terribly swamped with email and am unable to answer programming questions. Steps for installing source code on your machine: Go to the download site and download the file titled Thinking in Java, 3rd Edition by clicking on this link and requesting that your browser save the file.
Please note that these files were tested with the most recent version of Java. Using "ant" to compile the files We have created ant buildfiles for the code in Thinking in Java, 3rd edition. ant is an open-source, defacto standard tool that you can freely download from ant.apache.org. ant. Total Beginner Lessons. Overview (Java Platform SE 6) Java Programming Notes. Java Basics: Table of Contents [First Draft - June 2005]